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About The independent. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1903)
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT JANUARY 15, 1903. 10 News of the Week The American Beet Sugar associa tion held a session in Washington last week and passed resolutions withdraw ing any opposition to the ratification of the Cuban treaty. What kind of a fix are those papers now in which have been declaring that "the indus try would be ruined ' if this treaty wa3 ratified? Do those editors expect to see all the beet sugar factories torn devrn? Did they ever, at any time, be lieve the statements that they made about "the ruin of the industry?" Were those editorials advertisements paid for at so much a line by the , tariff grafters? The next time that you hear a tariff grafter talk about how "the industry will be ruined," refer him to this beet sugar episode. The reason why these chaps hav quit their fight is that they are engaged in promoting a large number of com panies for the production of beet su gar and have sent out circulars prom ising stockholders a profit of from 50 to 80 per cent on their investment These circulars state that there will be a large profit in the business if all tariffs are removed. Secretary Wilson came to their aid in an interview in , which he said that beet sugar could be sold at 2 cents a pound at retail and then give a large profit to the producer and intermediate handlers. The "ruin of the industry" cry had tendency to defeat the sale of beet su gar stock, and the promoters thought that they had better call it off. So r the national association announced that 25 per cent reduction of the tariff on Cuban sugar would have no effect at all on the profits of beet sugar manufacturers. Confusion and chaos reigns all over the United States. In some places factories have shut down, in others the' people have formed mobs and raided loaded coal cars, in others they have resorted to burning beans and corn and cutting, down shade trees, schools and churches have been closed, people are trying to burn soft coal in hard coal stoves and are ren dered ill by escaping gases, all on account of the action in the beginning of one baby trust down in Pennsyl vania. The whole country is on the verge of anarchy. The trust principle overthrows the system upon which 80,0u0,000 of-people have been accus tomed to do business and the result is c n a o s. , The New England white slave driv ers who own cotton mills in the south have defeated the proposed laws to prohibit child labor. That the New England lobby was able to do that, does not in the least abate the sordid criminality of the southern legislators who failed to act Neither does their plea that child labor by the hundred thousand is employed in the north. The greed of the trusts has no bounds They not only want all the great in crease in the production of wealth created by the labor of adults an made possible by the advance of sci ence, education and invention, but they want the additional wealth thsit can be created by iae toil of the lit tle children. So the children are driven into the sweat shops and fac tories north and south and made to work harder than the black slaves of the south ever worked before the war. W c :::a oj?EA.T..: s LOAK SALE'S in which every garment included is of this year's style not an old one in the list. w 6 "The Northwestern has had to re duce its train service out of Chicago for want of coal and announces that it 'will have to take off some ot its suburban trains next week unless an increased supply can be secured. It seems that the persons "to whom God in his infinite wisdom has entrusle.1 the property interests of this nation," can't manage things at all. The un disputed sway of the individual who announced that fact for four or five -months and until the president inter fered, has thrown the whole country Into chaos. The Independent be lieves that statement now, less than ever. If God had done anything of the kind he would not have provided for freezing the poor. He would more likely have provided for roasting some of the coal trust magnates on a red hot gridiron. The coal famine was so severe in Toledo, O., that coal was only sold to those who had physicians certificates stating that it was actually necessary to save their patients' lives. Now let the trust magnates and would-be wise men interfere some more with the natural laws of economics. One or two more moves like those headed by Mor gan. J. J. Hill and Rockefeller and we will have the world topsy turvey The senate and house at Washing ton and mora than half of the city councils in the whole northern states are engaged in investigating the cause of the coal famine. So far none of MONTE CARLOS Fitted Half Fitted Black Colors BLOUSES Plain Trimmed Long Short is is is 27 inches, 32 inches, 3G inches, 45 inches, or full lengths. You'll hardly firjd another opportunity like this during the year. You know the styles, you know your preferences, and after reading over the follow ing list of prices and reductions, you will know that this is the time to purchase your cloak. imii t t n l . , I, , I, I,,. . . At $3.90 all garments worth from $5.00 to $7.50 At $5.00 all garments worth from $8.50 to $0.00 At $7.50 all garments worth from $10 to $15 At $12.00 all garments worth from $18 to $20 This is not an assortment of odd sizes. Every size is here, from 32, to 46 and ready to hurry off with the owners who will rapidly select them. If you cannot visit the store write us your choice in color, in weave, in cut, send your measure, and you will receive your wrap by return mail. is I Miller & Paine I them seem to have found out any thing. Wonder if it is "Providence," duty," and "destiny" that is doing this thing? We ought to hear from Beveridge on that subject. Information has reached The Inde pendent to the effect that the reason Generals Dewet, Botha and Delarey did not visit the United States was that the state department at Washing ton made strong objections to the visit and used every means known to diplomacy to prevent it. The ad ministration was fearful of the effect that their visit would have upon the republican party and its imperialistic policy. This is an exclusive bit of news for the readers of The Inde pendent. Many persons connected Avith the management of the great dailies were cognizant of the fact but they managed to suppress any al lusion to it. One Washington corre spondent got hold of the facts and sent a full account to his paper, a New York daily. The account was sup pressed, but the salary of the reporter was raised $10 a week with a re quest that he keep very mum upon the subject A coal trust was formed in Cleve land, O. A judge called a special grand jury to investigate. The trust apologized and disbanded. That was a little trust formed without the con sent of the republican party. The big trusts formed by the connivance of republican leaders never are troubled by investigating grand juries. Repub lican judges know better than to in stigate such proceedings, The democrats celebrated "Jackson Day" in Omaha, Cleveland and sev eral other cities. Four hundred dinei at Waterloo, la., at the Horace Boieu Jacksonian club, but the thing does not seem to have turned out as ex pected. The man whom they were booming for candidate for governor delivered a notable speech, advocating government ownership of railroads as a national issue for the democrats in 1904. Instead of being a reorganizes he turned out a populist. What Un cle Horace, who 'repudiated the Kan sas City platform because it was too radical, had to say about that speech is not told in the dispatches. Some of the courts are falling into line behind The Independent and en forcing the doctrines that it has Ions advocated. Every reader of this pa per knows that it has always held that debts created by manipulating corners on the board of trade we:o gambling debts and never should be collectable by a suit at law. At last the appellate court at Chicago has come to the same conclusion and has held that "the running of the corner on the board of trade by which the exorbitant and fictitious price of 64 cents per bushel was fixed, for oats, when the reasonable and actual price of that grain was then but 38 cents per bushel, was a violation of the criminal statute." Good for that court! If the rest of the judges would read The Independent every week, they might also get in line with sound law and administer their courts the interest of the public Welfare. In stead of being appendices to plutoc racy and the gamblers. a A special grand jury has been em panelled in Chicago to bring in in dictments against the little coal trust there. The state's attorney in his aplication for a grand jury says that a combination has been formed: "To prevent competition in the sale and delivery of coal in the county and to regulate and fix the price thereof, and that such a combination has been en tered into and exists to fix and lim it the amount and quantity of such products as are mined in this state and also such as are mined and pro duced elsewhere and brought into the county for consumption and to reg ulate and fix the price thereof," and "it is a matter of general informa tion that at the present time great quantities of such products have been brought into the county for sale and consumption, and that the same is sold only at exorbitant prices, so much beyond the cost of production and transportation that such owners, op erators and dealers receive unreason able profits and the consumers are required to pay exorbitant prices; that by reason of such combination and the withholding of sales there under, great distress and suffering prevail among the poor in the com munity, and great hardships exist among the different lines of Indus-